Articles by Year: 2008
Accountants, lawyers, and doctors, oh my! A designer’s guide to business.
Before I get started I want to stress a few things. First and fore most, it should ALWAYS be your goal to run your business 100% legally. This means paying ALL your taxes and following ALL laws. If you truly…
New Design is up! Feedback wanted!
We’re really happy to announce a brand new site design to the Go Mediazine. Or should I officially say GOMEDIAZINE – all one word. Or you could spell it GOMEDIAzine or something like that. But anyway, we’re still tweaking some…
Vector Freebie: Illustrator Icons
So as a follow-up to the mouse cursor freebie from last week, here are some free vector Illustrator icons! There are eight of the most-used Adobe Illustrator tools inside: both arrows, pencil, magnifying glass, hand, pen, brush, and eyedropper.
Go Media Office Construction Update
Hey true believers, I wanted to give everyone a quick update on the status of Go Media’s new headquarters. Well, they say construction takes twice as long and costs twice as much as you estimate. This is absolutely wrong. In…
A Day In the Life of a Go Media Employee
By the time my phone tells me it’s 9:50am, I’m muttering obscenities into my glass as I take one last swig of OJ, say goodbye to my wrestling kittens, then fly out the door to my Subaru. Luckily I’m able…
Computer Arts Projects: Typography Feature for Jeff Finley
In addition to the feature in Advanced Photoshop this month, I was blessed with a feature in Computer Arts Projects. Issue #111 Typography to be exact. They highlighted some of my 3D typography and ornate lettering techniques. Here are some…
Go Media featured in Advanced Photoshop Magazine
We were lucky enough to be featured in the new issue (Issues 45) of Advanced Photoshop Magazine. They were pretty generous, giving us a two page spread as well as covering the Arsenal in later pages. I can’t thank them…
Free Vector Pack 11 Sampler
Hello again – more free vector art! This time it’s a sampler from Vector Pack 11 that was released a few weeks ago. Inside you’ll find seven complete vector pieces, one from each set. So you’ve got a taste of…
Moleskine: The Artists’ Notebook
I’ve often felt product lust over those shiny Moleskine notebooks on the shelf in Borders, and this is why: guys like Jeff Finley use ’em – they must be good. As I was flipping through the Moleskine that sits on…
I Am Liz Hunt — Designers, Unite!
When Jeff Finley first approached me to work as an information designer for Go Media, my inner monologue went something like this: “Go Media? Who are THESE guys? What’s this ‘Arsenal: Professional Design Weaponry’ stuff? Vector Packs? Skulls and Heraldry…
“Concentric Downpour” Printed on DBH
Another Design by Humans winner for Go Media. I tweaked one of the pieces from the Concentric Series to work as a shirt design and it won shirt of the day. They did a great job with printing, and making…
Vector Freebies: Mouse Cursors
Vector Freebies It’s Monday, so we thought it would be a good time for another vector freebie from Go Media! Our Ohio web designers have found these vector cursors useful – we hope you do too! Inside you’ll find 2…
Getting Things Done: My First Weekly Review
After a long day at your desk, do you ever ask yourself “What the heck did I accomplish today?” I know I could be working like a madman and pushing projects out before deadlines and I still won’t even remember…
Watercolors in Use: Alex Cherry
So to go along with the release of Watercolor Texture Set 2 at the Go Media Arsenal we’re highlighting Alex Cherry and his subtle use of the textures in some solid pieces. “Black Cloud” shows just how versatile these textures…
Adobe Bridge is iTunes for Designers
Really? Think about it: What if every time you wanted to jam to your Summer 2001 Playlist you had to re-construct it from your mess of mp3s in a folder called “downloads”? Well, you don’t, because iTunes doesn’t organize your…
“Bold is Beautiful” shirt finally printed!
I’m happy to finally be able to tell everyone that this shirt has been printed and is for sale! It couldn’t have come at a better time (on my 26th birthday!). I take my hat off to the people at…
Free Skull Tiling Background
To celebrate the release of Vector Pack 11 I made this seamless tiling Skull wallpaper using nothing but the Hand Drawn Skull pack. Just right click to save it to your computer. Use it for desktop wallpaper, upload it to…
Vector Pack 11 Out Now!
We’ve been hard at work at Vector Pack 11 and have finally released it to the public today! The set includes Hand-Drawn Skulls, Doodles, Birds 2, Suits, International Skylines, Trees 2, and Type Explosions. Check it out! gomedia.us/arsenal
How to design a t-shirt on a budget and a tight deadline
Monday morning. You’re walking into work (or in some of your cases, waking up in your undies and walking 10 feet to your desk). You pound some coffee and peruse your inbox. You have a present. One of your regulars…
Project Managment: Go Media Style
Go Media’s Prooflab Demonstration Video from Go Media on Vimeo. This video will walk you through our customer and project management system called “Prooflab.” We built this application from the ground up based on our specific needs as a design…
13 ways to trick your client into happiness
The art of making your customers love the designs you create. In an ideal world our clients would think like designers. In an ideal world our clients have a good knowledge of marketing. In an ideal world they think logically…
Dave portfolio update
Dave, one of the designers at Go Media, updated his personal portfolio. It looks really really good, go check it out: http://whalebonemakesart.com
Free Go Media Wallpapers
We went through some of our old artwork from the past two years and decided to make a few free wallapers for you. They’re in a bunch of sizes and some for widescreen monitors. Just go to our freebies page…